India’s top-ranked singles player Somdev Devvarman will make his Mylan World TeamTennis debut this July for the San Diego Aviators after being selected as the first overall pick in the 2014 WTT Roster Draft.

Devvarman, a two-time former NCAA singles champion for the University of Virginia, has been ranked as high as No. 62 in singles and has main draw wins at all four Grand Slam events. The 29-year-old joins fellow Aviators Raven Klaasen, Kveta Peschke and marquee players Daniela Hantuchova and Bob and Mike Bryan.

Rising U.S. star Victoria Duval was the second overall pick, returning to the Philadelphia Freedoms team owned by league co-founder Billie Jean King.

Among the additional first-round draft highlights included the Austin Aces picking former world No. 2 Vera Zvonareva, who is on the comeback trail after missing the entire 2013 WTA season with a right-shoulder injury. Zvonareva, who holds four Grand Slam titles in doubles and mixed doubles, returns to WTT play for the first time in 11 years.

The WTT regular season starts on Sunday, July 6, and runs through Wednesday, July 23. The top two teams from each conference advance to the WTT Conference Championships on Thursday, July 24. The Eastern and Western Conference champions will face off at the WTT Finals on Sunday, July 27, on the home court of the Western Conference champion.